Archives: Voices

America First? No, Corporations First.

Big corporations donated heavily to Trump’s inaugural fund. Just a few months later, federal cases against them are being dropped.

The Coalition on Human Needs Opposes the House Budget Package

CHN strongly opposes the Congressional budget package’s deep cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in addition to other basic needs programs coupled with tax breaks that drain resources from lower-income families to give tax breaks to the wealthy plus fund family separation, border enforcement, detention, and deportation of immigrants — policies are wasteful, inhumane, and destructive to our communities and economy. We urge Congress to instead pause this process, defeat the bill, and instead look to protect and strengthen basic needs programs.

The Coalition on Human Needs Opposes the Senate Budget Package

We urge the Senate to consider the serious consequences of this unprecedented shifting of resources away from people with low and moderate incomes to those with very high incomes while increasing the debt, and to stop the headlong rush to pass this legislation by an artificial deadline.

How Reconciliation Cuts Harm Civil Rights

The reconciliation process is primarily being used to fund tax cuts for the wealthy; propose deep cuts to essential services like Medicaid and SNAP.

Join the National Day of Action to Protect Basic Needs Programs

Please join us and our coalition partners on Wednesday, June 18, for a critical day of action to demand the Senate reject cuts to human needs programs and protect health care and nutrition access for tens of millions of people.